[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice "Documentation in Local Libraries Project"

Le 2013-02-06 13:13, Jean Weber a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:35 AM, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
> <ol@sophia-louise.de>  wrote:
> > Hi Marc, Jean,
> > Am 06.02.2013 09:45, schrieb Marc Paré:
> >
> > [...]
> > > (For example, my school board operates 51 libraries, some small/others
> > > quite large, sample texts arrive weekly to the libraries and most often
> > > are not put on the stacks but are either left on a shelf for later
> > > disposal or distributed to teachers who think may use them, BUT only
> > > after being vetted by the head librarian to make sure the texts follow
> > > school board teaching philosophies and programme expectations. If the
> > > texts do not follow programme expectations, then they are not accepted
> > > for library use. In our case, the LibreOffice guides fit in well but
> > > still must go through internal vetting approval process. The more
> > > well-known are guides the shorter the vetting process.)
> >
> > In Germany many libraries start now to offer e-books. And I think many
> > in Canada/Australia and all over the world do this.
> > Why don't you try to get our e-books (epub/pdf) first in the libraries?
> > No expenses. When we will get in such a library then the question about
> > written books will come from the users.
> >
> > Ok, there is for now only one epub for Getting started 3.3 [1] but this
> > may be an Easy Hack for documentation list doing it especially with 4.0.
> > And all books are available as pdf.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
>
>
> This is a good idea. PDFs are available, but I do not think the
> formatting of the eBook for 3.3 (done by Lulu) is very good. Creating
> a well-formatted eBook is not easy, because our template
> contains features (including the tables for tips, notes, cautions, and
> the use of custom styles for headings, among other things) that do not
> convert well. This is a big reason why I want to change some things in
> the template. Dan Lewis has notes on how he hacked the conversion of
> one chapter, but we need to improve the template and the process.
>
> --Jean

If only we had a small and efficient ODF viewer, then this would not be 
a problem. We had a discussion on this quite a while ago and it was 
quite a lively one (it was on the discussion list). I don't believe 
there was much interest by the devs to work on any of it. ;-(

Marc

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